Later, the durablechairs produced by Stewart Faudre became a major success. 1856 Rawena Granice Steele, state's first woman novelist and frequent visitor to Sonoma, begins literarycareer. Harrison Mecham believed to have planted more than 90, 000 eucalyptus trees on his property nearPetaluma. College ice hockey team draws large crowd, beats college teams, playing atGrace Bros. There are 480 live trees, 30,000Christmas lights, 14 bartenders and a large orchestra at a cost of more than 130,000.